Hi, >> On one occasion this involved a scrambled screen on the right side of >> the external monitor; it always involves lost characters on emacs GTK >> screens (graphic attached). On the graphic you can see the left hand >> emacs window showing the full text, and the right-hand window mainly >> blank, being truncated at a set position on the screen. >> >> I don't get this problem with the emacs-x11 (v22) build. The same >> GTK build of emacs works without problem on an nvidia setup on a >> desktop elsewhere. >> >> I have a Radeon X300 in a Thinkpad T43 laptop, running default >> resolution on the LCD (left), VGA (right) of 1400x1050, 1920x1080 >> respectively. > > Disable compiz. The max texture size on your hardware is 2048x2048, > your desktop is larger than that, so the behavior beyond the limits is > undefined.
Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it. I believe compiz was not running (pgrep compiz ->'', gnome desktop effects disabled) but in any case, I have the same effect with all compiz packages uninstalled, even after a reboot, Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
